 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 546edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted Night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night,...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the rayen down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through' the empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pages
...Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night,...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the ravep down Pf darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 pages
...alluring locks — Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head." as before in the remarkable passage in line 251, At every fall smoothing the raven .down Of darkness till it smiled — So again in Lycidas, a poem of Milton, which, in many parts of it, has a considerable bearing upon... | |
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